Photoplay (Jul-Dec 1955)

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FAVORITE OF AMERICA’S MOVIEGOERS FOR OVER FORTY YEARS j PHOTOPLAY Your December issue will be on sale at your newsstand — November 8 November 1955 SPECIAL EVENTS Casts of Current Pictures 4 Turn of a Career Rock Hudson 22 Hollywood Party Line Edith Gwynn 6 Readers Inc. . . 28 Laughing Stock Erskine Johnson 10 Hollywood for You Sidney Skolsky 32 Cal York’s Inside Stuff 13 Becoming Attractions 84 Let’s Go to the Movies Janet Graves 20 Brief Reviews 110 HIGH LIGHTS Go to the Movies 35 Glamour Never Takes a Holiday Sheilah Graham 37 The Dividends of Courage (Guy Madison) Maxine Arnold 38 Everything’s Going Her Way (Shirley Jones) Ernst Jacobi 41 Win a Present from a Star 43 Faith Began with a Wishing Tree (Kim Novak) Helen Limke 49 “My Sister Eileen" 50 Who’s No Angel? (Aldo Ray) Dee Phillips 52 You Haven't Heard the Half About Jimmy! (James Dean) Natalie Wood 55 Cool, Crazy and Jolly Exciting (Joan Collins) Hyatt Downing 56 For Sale: One Pair of Traveling Boots (Kirk Douglas) Maxine Block 59 Two Women and A Dream (Betty Grable, Joan Crawford) Aljean Meltsir 60 The Men in Her Life (Piper Laurie) Jack Holland 63 I Know Susan’s Secret! (Susan Hayward) Margaret Lane 86 LIVING WITH YOUNG IDEAS Look Like a Living Doll (Photoplay Star Fashions) 65 Going Formal? Lori Nelson 69 How to Be Very, Very Charming (Social Problem) Gladys Hall 70 What’s Spinning? (Records) Chris Daggett 72 The Object of Your Complexion Harriet Segman 75 Crossword Puzzle 76 Needle Designs 77 Holiday Glamour You Can Sew (Photoplay’s Pattern of the Month) 78 STARS IN FULL COLOR Martha Hyer 36 Anita Ekberg 42 John Derek 43 Kurt Kasznar 50, 51 Lori Nelson 36 Oreste 42 Carol Ohmart 43 Betty Garrett 50, 51 Debbie Reynolds 36 Mitzi Gaynor 42 Jimmy Stewart 43 Dick York 50, 51 Natalie Wood 36 Dean Martin 42 Rita Moreno 43 Janet Leigh 50,51 Gloria Talbott 36 Jerry Lewis 42 Anne Baxter Ben Cooper 45 45 Jack Lemmon 50,51 Bob Fosse 51 Barbara Rush 37 Doris Day 42 Marla English 45 Natalie Wood 54 Marisa Pavan 37, 42 Charlton Heston 43 George Gobel 45 Jimmy Dean 54 Guy Madison 39 Shirley MaeLaine 43 Debra Paget 45 Joan Collins 57 Cover: Color portrait of Kim Novak by Coburn. Kim stars next in Columbia’s “Picnic.” Other color picture credits on page 94. EDITORIAL STAFF ann Higginbotham — Editor rena u. 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